If you want to change society you have to work with people as they are, not as you wish they were.
Harry On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:25 AM, H LV <[email protected]> wrote: > Pure Marxism is a materialist religion and not a science. > > harry > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:01 AM, H LV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yawn. >> >> Harry >> >> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Che <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:35 PM, H LV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The Precariat and Class Struggle By Guy Standing >>>> >>>> Abstract: The world economy is in the midst of a Global Transformation >>>> that is producing a new global class structure. A new mass class is >>>> emerging – the precariat – characterised by chronic uncertainty and >>>> insecurity. Although the precariat is still a class-in-the-making, divided >>>> within itself, its elements are united in rejecting old mainstream >>>> political traditions. To become a transformative class, however, the >>>> precariat needs to move beyond the primitive rebel stage manifested in 2011 >>>> and become enough of a class-for-itself to be a power for change. This will >>>> involve a struggle for redistribution of the key assets needed for a good >>>> life in a good society in the twenty-first century –not the “means of >>>> production”, but socioeconomic security, control of time, quality space, >>>> knowledge (or education), financial knowledge and financial capital. >>>> >>>> http://www.guystanding.com/files/documents/Precariat_and_Cla >>>> ss_Struggle_final_English.pdf >>>> >>> >>> >>> This is just (yawn) one more fake 'post-marxist' analysis (of which >>> there has been plenty: 'Post Modernism' being the exemplar of this genre). >>> Dismissing the importance of those CENTRAL materialist concepts -- the >>> Means and Mode of Production -- is a dead giveaway that this is just one >>> more quasi-/pseudo-'scientific' analysis. With a suspect political-economic >>> -- no doubt petit-bourgeois liberal -- agenda behind it, of course. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Che <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/05/19/artificial-in >>>>>> telligence-will-impact-professional-writing/ >>>>>> >>>>>> How Artificial Intelligence will impact professional writing >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As I keep pointing out: such technological developments could only >>>>> constitute a 'crisis' in a society where every Human being is NOT >>>>> guaranteed a lifetime quality-of-life. And Capitalism -- being a system of >>>>> institutionalized *artificial* scarcity, benefiting ONLY a tiny, >>>>> self-interested elite -- IS that infernal society. >>>>> >>>>> Therefore we NEED and REQUIRE *Socialism* in order to advance as a >>>>> species. >>>>> >>>>> But as things stand -- the U.S. Imperialists are working overtime to >>>>> snuff us all, at the moment... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> http://nypost.com/2017/08/29/artificial-intelligence-is-writ >>>>>>> ing-the-next-game-of-thrones-book/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Artificial intelligence is writing the next ‘Game of Thrones’ book >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
